I'm copy pastaing my last comment to make sure people see this. No one should be fooled into thinking that Voat cares about privacy. > We know for a fact that Voat keeps logs and that they are retained until the limits of local file storage are reached. This is fact and not debatable. How do we know this? Remember the first big/long outage when the site went down hard for like a week and Putt was no where to be found? Many of us, myself included, who were technically able to debug and diagnose the problem were able to determine that the exception being thrown was caused by the HD being filled up and running out of space and new logs could not be written to disk. This is de facto proof that the Voat website logs every page view to disk. Any privacy aware website that cares about your privacy sets up aggressive log purging (or turning off logging all together) as the first and easiest thing to do to protect their users. The fact that the website was able to fill up the disk in a week or two means that not only do they log page views, but that they are aggressively logging and storing a lot of data. This is why I jumped ship then and never went back to the site. They are not trustworthy.